Wind dominates at 20.7 GW but a 3.7 GW net import need and thermal dispatch push midnight prices above 117 EUR/MWh.
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Generation mix
Wind onshore 51%
Wind offshore 10%
Biomass 12%
Hydro 4%
Natural gas 9%
Hard coal 3%
Brown coal 12%
76%
Renewable share
20.7 GW
Wind (on + offshore)
0.0 GW
Solar
34.2 GW
Total generation
-3.7 GW
Net import
117.4 €/MWh
Day-ahead price
13.5°C / 3 km/h
Temp / Wind speed
Open-Meteo, Kassel (51.3°N 9.5°E)
0% / 0.0 W/m²
Cloud cover / Radiation
163
gCO₂/kWh
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Wind onshore 17.4 GW dominates the right two-thirds of the scene as vast ranks of three-blade turbines on lattice towers stretching deep into the distance across gently rolling spring fields; wind offshore 3.3 GW appears as a faint line of red-blinking nacelle lights on the far horizon beyond a coastal ridge; brown coal 4.0 GW occupies the left foreground as a pair of massive hyperbolic cooling towers emitting pale steam plumes lit from below by sodium-orange industrial lights; biomass 4.1 GW is rendered as a cluster of medium-scale combined-heat-and-power plants with cylindrical storage silos and low stacks venting thin white exhaust, positioned centre-left; natural gas 3.1 GW appears as a compact CCGT facility with a single tall exhaust stack and a modest heat-recovery unit glowing behind chain-link fencing, placed between the biomass plant and the coal station; hard coal 1.1 GW is a smaller power station with a single rectangular boiler house and a conveyor belt, tucked behind the brown-coal towers; hydro 1.2 GW is suggested by a small dam and spillway in a dark valley at the far left edge. The sky is completely black — true midnight, no twilight, no sky glow — with a scattering of sharp cold stars visible through perfectly clear skies (0% cloud cover). Spring vegetation: fresh green grass and early-leaf deciduous trees, barely visible under artificial light. The air is calm (2.9 km/h), so turbine blades turn very slowly and cooling-tower plumes rise nearly vertically. The atmosphere feels heavy and oppressive, reflecting the high electricity price — a faint industrial haze diffuses the sodium lights into amber halos. Style: highly detailed oil painting in the tradition of 19th-century German Romantic landscape painters — rich dark palette of indigo, amber, and soot-grey, visible impasto brushwork, dramatic chiaroscuro between the blackness of the rural landscape and the glowing industrial facilities, atmospheric depth achieved through layers of mist. Every technology rendered with meticulous engineering accuracy: turbine nacelles with aviation warning lights, aluminium-clad cooling towers, riveted steel boiler housings. No text, no labels.